An AB Recombinant and Its Parental HIV Type 1 Strains in the Area of the Former Soviet Union: Low Requirements for Sequence Identity in Recombination

Liitsola, Kirsi; Holm, Kirsi; F. Bobkov, Aleksei; Pokrovsky, Vadim; Smolskaya, Tatjana; Leinikki, Pauli; Osmanov, Saladin; Salminen, Mika

doi:10.1089/08892220050075309

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An AB Recombinant and Its Parental HIV Type 1 Strains in the Area of the Former Soviet Union: Low Requirements for Sequence Identity in Recombination

Published in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses • Jul 20, 2000

Authors:

Kirsi Liitsola

Kirsi Holm

Aleksei F. Bobkov

Abstract

In the former Soviet Union (SU) increasing numbers of HIV-1 infections among injecting drug users (IDU) have been reported, especially in the Ukraine. The main subtype transmitted among the IDUs seems to be subtype A, but limited numbers of subtype B cases have also been reported. In Kaliningrad, Ru...

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Recombinant DNA

Virology

Biology

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